Why MYSTERIES? Because that is the genre I read. Why PARADISE? Because that is where I live.
Among other things, this blog, the result of a 2008 New Year's resolution, will act as a record of books that I've read, and random thoughts.

20 May 2009

ACRC Update - 20 May 2009

I've just finished the 11th novel, THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY. Last week I bought second hand at a library sale, a large number of omnibus volumes, for about $1 each, accounting between them for about 55 novels, and I can see many of the next titles on their spines, so hopefully I'll be right for a while.

My intent in the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge is to read her books in order, so that I can get some idea of what she is doing, problems she is attempting to solve, and her development as a writer. If you look at some of my reviews you will see that I have been able to undertake some of this reflection.

Currently I am managing about a book a month.

Up until now I have been mainly borrowing the books from my local library but with my new acquisitions, this will be cut down quite a bit.

I have set up a block over in the right hand column called Agatha Christie Reading Challenge (with the same logo as this post) where I am listing the books I'm currently reading and those I've finished.The challenge is called ACRC so each review will be preceded by those letters.

Contribute your blog postings about any Agatha Christie novels to the monthly carnival. Make an agreement with yourself that whenever you complete reading an Aggie you will write a blog posting about it and then submit the posting to the carnival.If you are participating in the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge thenwrite updates like this one and submit them to the Carnival.Let us know what progress you are making.

Ha! That was a good questions. Many of them were translated in the 70s, but sound as if they are from the 1930, and quite often my daughters and I laugh at ridiculous phrases and try to guess what Christie wrote :O